€30K reached🎉! Thank you generous donors!
We are now on our way towards our 1st reach goal. To celebrate, we have added 4 more apps to our list of adoptable apps.
Discover helps you install, remove and update your software; KolourPaint is an easy to use design program; with KRFB, you can share your desktop over a network; and #GCompris is the wildly popular educational suite with tons of fun activities for kids.
https://kde.org/fundraisers/yearend2024/
In "This Week in KDE Apps": Optilmage's first release; Itinerary's re-design; how Karp, KDE's new PDF designer, has improved its performance; the upcoming KDE Gear ⚙️ 24.12 release; and more.
You can too help can contribute to keeping KDE's apps by adopting at our fundraiser:
ISO Image Writer, Partition Manager, SkanPage and System Monitor added to the list of adoptable apps.
If using the command line to burn disk images makes you nervous, ISO Image Writer is your friend!
Likewise, creating and modifying partitions can be scary, so why not use KDE's friendly Partition Manager?
https://kde.org/fundraisers/yearend2024/
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SkanPage will help you connect to your scanner and you'll be scanning all your important documents quickly and easily in no time.
And to keep an eye on what's going on on your machine, don't miss Plasma's System Monitor. Personalize pages with sensors and keep an eye on what's important to you.
This Week in Plasma brings oodles of features to your desktop.
Among many other things, you can now clone panels with all their features, the custom tiling system remembers tile arrangement per virtual desktop and acquires support for switching windows from tile to tile using keyboard shortcuts, and you can now limit the upper and lower ranges for tablet pen pressure.
https://blogs.kde.org/2024/12/07/this-week-in-plasma-oodles-of-features/
This week in KDE apps: we added the final touches to our applications for the KDE Gear ⚙️ 24.12.0, released KPhotoAlbum and KGeoTag, now based on Qt6; improved Itinerary's ticket extractor; and continued our work on Karp, KDE's new PDF editor.
https://blogs.kde.org/2024/12/08/this-week-in-kde-apps-gear-24.12.0-incoming/
Remember: you too can contribute to keeping KDE's projects going by adopting an app at our fundraiser:
Join the KDE End of Year documentation porting sprint 📃! There are currently 58 open tasks up for grabs!
https://discuss.kde.org/t/end-of-year-documentation-sprint/26686
KDE Gear ⚙️ 24.12 is out! Check out what's coming in the new versions of Dolphin, Kdenlive, Kate, Okular, NeoChat, and much, much more.
https://kde.org/announcements/gear/24.12.0/
Help support KDE's work! You can still adopt an app at our fundraiser:
Microsoft "innovating":
Meanwhile, KDE Connect be like:
Some more KDE Connect goodness: during your presentations, use KDE Connect to move through your slides.
Or put your finger on the "Pointer", point your phone at the screen and a flaming circular pointer will appear. Higlight what you need by moving your phone.
This Week in Plasma: Better fractional scaling, improved screen color accuracy, maximize a window horizontally or vertically by double-clicking on one of its edges, clipboard data migrated to SQLite.
https://blogs.kde.org/2024/12/14/this-week-in-plasma-better-fractional-scaling/
In "This Week in KDE Apps"...
* Itinerary keeps your travel data safe (and lets you import and export it)
* Gardening app PowerPlant gets new looks
* Kaidan, the XMPP chat app, releases version 0.10.0 and 0.10.1
https://blogs.kde.org/2024/12/15/this-week-in-kde-apps-gear-24.12.0-is-out/
Remember to support your favorite apps donating to our fundraiser!:
https://kde.org/fundraisers/yearend2024/
We also want to thank everyone who donated through the pop-up. We're very grateful for your support!
Many people said they wished they could donate more. Please don't! Every euro will help!
